Laura Lehmus // Germany // 2014 // 06:13 min
Animation, Documentary // Coming of Age, Drama
An animation-short about puberty, based on real life interviews with teenagers.
Zamarin Wahdat // Germany, USA // 2020 // 13:30 min
Live Action // Drama
When 8-year-old Kati hides in her father's delivery van, Faruk must juggle his responsibilities as a single dad while holding down his first job in a new country. As their relationship [...]
Rudolf Fitzgerald Leonard // Germany // 2022 // 16:19 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
During water therapy for his chronic spasms, Leon is involved in an incident that gradually disrupts all aspects of his life.
Remo Scherrer // Switzerland // 2016 // 11:20 min
Animation, Documentary // Drama, Portrait
Wally?s childhood is increasingly turned upside down by her mother's alcohol addiction. She experiences the excesses and consequences of addiction first hand. Desperately, the eight-year-old [...]
Simon Maria Kubiena // Austria, Germany // 2022 // 16:33 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
After a young apprentice turns away from his father out of disappointment, he seeks paternal closeness with his instructor. He crosses a boundary and gets to know himself a bit better.
Kevin Meul // Belgium // 2013 // 13:58 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama, Tragedy
If it were easy, everyone would do it - is the mantra Steve's father uses to maximise his performance on the running track. But his extreme motivation attempts go way too far...
Daniel Sterlin-Altman // Germany // 2024 // 13:07 min
Animation // Coming of Age, Drama, Comedy
In the suburbs somewhere in Canada, 16-year-old Nadav is writing an explicit gay erotica in private. His mother, Dr. Shari Tremor, is a fertility botanist studying the mating patterns of [...]
Jonatan Etzler // Sweden // 2014 // 14:00 min
Live Action // Drama
Elin tries to fit in at her new school where the classmates are preparing for a skiing trip. Soon she realizes that children are divided into richer and poorer, and she doesn?t know where she [...]
Miia Tervo // Finland // 2015 // 08:56 min
Live Action
A weekend father wants to show his teenage daughter his love by taking her to a car wash, but instead of the car wash they end up on a life-changing adventure in the supermarket, at the [...]
Ben Adler // France // 2014 // 14:23 min
Drama
A divorced father, takes his 14 years-old son to France for a football game. When the car breaks down, they have no choice but to accept a ride from a bus of traveling England fans. Here, the [...]
Jorge Yúdice // Spain // 2018 // 04:48 min
Live Action // Drama
After her husband leaves, Alicia settles into watch a live stream on her favourite youtube channel: VictorGaming. A role-playing video games channel. Victor, is answering questions from his [...]
Uli Seis, Daniella Koffler // Germany, Israel // 2017 // 15:00 min
Animation // Drama
Netta is a young Israeli woman who wishes to move to Berlin, out of all places. Netta's father, the son of Holocaust survivors, is horrified by her decision.
Henriette Rietz // Germany // 2023 // 04:39 min
Documentary, Experimental Film, Live Action // satire
Loving, happy, easygoing. Care work, mental load, exhaustion. How are mothers portrayed in the media? Everyday scenes from clichéd media representations are juxtaposed with serious personal [...]
Manuel Kinzer, Jorge A. Trujillo Gil // Germany, Colombia // 2018 // 15:00 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
Darío, a 17-year-old boy from Barranquilla, Colombia has a passion for dance. He loves his Carnival has to keep it a secret from his mother, who is afraid that he won´t grow up to be a „real [...]
Malin Ingrid Johansson // Sweden // 2024 // 14:26 min
Live Action // Drama
We meet a mother full of desire, on the parking deck of a ferry she is forced to make a choice between her parental duty and the love she's been waiting for.
Paul Philipp // Germany // 2017 // 28:55 min
Live Action // Drama
East Germany, 1987: The special investigator Mahler is said to have paranormal abilities. The police assigns him to solve the case of the 6-year-old Henry Kiefer, who is missing for weeks now, [...]
Alvaro Schoeck, Charlotte Waltert // Switzerland // 2023 // 11:52 min
Animation // Drama
An autumn day and the first winter night in the high mountains: it is hunting season.The paths of animals and humans cross and fade away. Swathes of mist blur the boundaries between dream, [...]
Falk Schuster // Germany // 2015 // 29:25 min
Animation // Coming of Age, Roadmovie
Its the summer of 1987 and a young family from the Leipzig district in East Germany are going on holiday, driving with their Trabant and trailer to a small holiday home on the Baltic Sea near [...]
Jennifer Drake // Germany // 2025 // 24:00 min
Live Action // Drama
Having been raised in a Christian household, Chris faces the challenge of finding his place in the world, particularly due to his two mothers who chose to keep their relationship hidden. When [...]
Nicolas Fattouh // Libanon, Qatar, Germany // 2020 // 09:55 min
Animation // Drama, Tragedy
Grandmother loses her five senses one after the other until she transforms into a wooden chair. Throughout her transformation, she realizes that her housekeeper is not the wild animal she [...]
Oscar Bøe // Norway // 2024 // 15:00 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
During a long-awaited family dinner, Martin announces that something serious has happened and asks if they can sit down to talk. Little sister Sara strokes Martin's back as he reveals that [...]
Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim // Germany // 2020 // 06:04 min
Coming of Age, Drama, Comedy
Early morning in the Bavarian woods. Christoph, suffering from a severe hang-over, sits next to his mother on a high seat. While she is aiming at a deer, Christoph tries to make up his mind [...]
Abdenoure Ziane // France // 2020 // 18:02 min
Children Film, Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
The sun is burning down on Kader and Rudy trying to pass the time in the scorching heat of their suburban neighborhood. The 11 year old Kader tries to keep Ramadan for the first time and takes [...]
Benjamin Pfohl // Germany // 2019 // 13:58 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Science Fiction, Thriller
Travelling to a remote cabin in the alps, a shy teenage girl has to decide if to pursue her own path on earth or to follow her parents - members of a cosmic cult - through a fatal procedure [...]
Philipp Döring // Germany // 2013 // 16:43 min
Live Action // Drama
All that is missing is one last signature and everyone wants to get this meeting over as quickly as possible - the mother, the new parents, the woman from the adoption office. But there is one [...]
Pola Beck // Germany // 2017 // 09:58 min
Live Action // Comedy, satire
Lucy is tired of being the perfect mother. She is seething on the inside. When a department store security guard searches her stroller he finds more than he could ever have imagined. A film [...]
Louis Delva // France // 2019 // 10:08 min
Live Action // Comedy
Tina and Fred, a middle-aged couple seem desperate in their search for a boy's name. For who? Why? A humorous and thoughtful look on a social issue.
Rebecca Blöcher, Frédéric Schuld // Germany // 2024 // 24:00 min
Animation, Documentary // Drama, Portrait
My mother led a very unorthodox life, living in palaces and under bridges. Her independence was most important for her, which in the end became her undoing. She decided to live in her tiny car [...]
Sophie Linnenbaum // Germany // 2017 // 08:24 min
Live Action // Drama, Comedy
Baby pictures, Christmas snapshots, holiday pictures, wedding photographs - our life is an endless sequence of photogenic memories.
Annika Birgel // Germany // 2024 // 15:20 min
Children Film, Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
On a remote German island, the inhabitants of a village come together to celebrate a traditional eve-of-wedding party. As the shards of the crockery smashed by the guests pile up, ten-year-old [...]
Max Zähle // Germany // 2010 // 23:41 min
Live Action // Drama
A German couple adopts an Indian orphan in Kolkata. When the child suddenly disappears they realize that they are part of the problem.
Sonja Rohleder // Germany // 2023 // 03:00 min
Animation, Children Film // Coming of Age, Drama
A day draws to a close. A little monkey falls asleep. As his mind wanders off, the forest starts to change. What happens to us and our mind when we fall asleep? Somni combines a visual lullaby [...]
Victor Velasco // USA // 2020 // 04:34 min
Live Action // Drama
A grumpy businessman walks to work on a Monday morning when he's stopped by a junkie-like kid who asks him: "Do you want some soup?".
Kirsikka Saari // Finland // 2018 // 14:40 min
Live Action // Drama, Comedy
Taina is overjoyed preparing the weekend visit of her son Eetu and his girlfriend. But the more Taina tries to entertain everyone, the less comfortable they feel. A tragicomic take on how [...]
Rebecca Figenschau // Norway // 2019 // 16:50 min
Drama, Comedy
A dysfunctional family of four are going camping and their poor communications skills makes it a struggle to cooperate when trying to put up a complicated tent. The kids are reacting badly to [...]
Jamille van Wijngaarden // Netherlands // 2018 // 11:00 min
Live Action // Comedy
When mother Marit wants to discuss the behavior of her son during a parent-teacher conference, teacher Yvonne can’t repress her pent-up feelings anymore. A murderous comedy with finger paint. [...]
Can Tanyol // Germany // 2023 // 18:35 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
Berlin-Kreuzberg. Kenan's big day has arrived. The nine-year-old half-orphan is to be circumcised, following the millennia-old Muslim tradition. But before that, there is a party! During the [...]